Otto, G. B.

OTTO

Posted By: Joyce Hickman (email)
Date: 7/31/2008 at 14:04:21

G. B. Otto

(From the 1883 History of Pottawattamie County, Iowa, by J. H. Keatley, p.103, Grove Twp.)
G. B. Otto, blacksmith and farmer, P. O. Wheeler's Grove, born in Pennsylvania, May 1831, son of James and Mehetabel (Field) Otto; he, a farmer, born in Pennsylvania in 1796, died in Iowa in 1869; she, born in Delaware in 1803, died in Iowa in 1880. They had eleven children, eight of whom are living. Subject received a common-school education; commenced life as a blacksmith, and married, in this county, in 1859, Sarah J. Pritchett, born in Tennessee in 1841, daughter of John W. and Lucinda (Traynor) Pritchett; he died in 1845 and she in 1853. Mr. and Mrs. Otto have had nine children, viz., John W., Harriet E. (dead), Rebecca J., Iva E. and Eva I. (twins), James B. (dead), Orpha A., Effie (dead) and Olive L. Subject is a Democrat; moved with his parents from Pennsylvania to Ohio in 1837, then to this county in 1851; about 1855, he bought forty acres of land at $8 per acre, and now has eighty acres valued at about $25 per acre; there is a small orchard and other small fruits on the place.